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36th ANNUAL ® NEWS &DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS Primer ImpactoUnivision Primer Impacto is a newsmagazine that reflects the reality of the world’s current events with an emphasis on the power of images as a vehicle of communication. Key news stories covered in 2014 included the capture of “El Chapo Guzman” and the realities of life for undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The show also includes stories that evoke the “Magic Realism” that Hispanic Culture has to offer. In addition, Primer Impacto covers entertainment, sports, weather, social media, fashion, and human-interest stories that touch the hearts of viewers. The range of coverage allows the show to serve a social purpose unique in Hispanic Television: dozens of missing children, fugitives, and families looking for loved ones have been found. And thanks to the generosity of viewers, hundreds of sick patients have received a helping hand. Executive Producer: Pilar Campos Senior Producer: Yurisan Cordero Co-Hosts: Barbara Bermudo, Pamela Silva-Conde Line Producers: Dunia Lashbrook, Yvanna Jijena, Jeannie Guzman Editorial Producers: Caludia Rodriguez, Hans Sarmiento Head Writer: Ibis Menendez Writers: Marta Gordillo, Norma Ribeiro Segment Producers: Mirna Couto, Guillermo Torres, Alfredo Bustillo, Zoia Gonzalez, Adriana Jarava-Gonzalez, Paula Rosado Entertainment Producers: Mabell Dieppa, Jessica Quinones, Chrystie Espinoza Reporters: Jackie Guerrido, Tony Dandrades, Ricardo Arambarri, Natalia Cruz, Julie Ferrer, Nayeli Chavez-Geller, Jomari Goyso, Cecilia Ramirez-Harris, Salvador Duran, Ivan Macias, Ernesto Rivas, Ahtziri Cardenas Camarena, Adriana Villamarin, Francisco Cobos Online Producer: Silvia Salgado Director: Jesette Vichot 2015 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD FOR NEWS The Buck Stops Here New Delhi Television Srinagar Floods Coverage (NDTV), India When floods ravaged Srinagar, Barkha Dutt anchored the scenes of unfolding tragedy. Her ground reports, interviews, and discussions highlighted the extent of devastation, the helplessness of residents, and the role of the Army — often criticized for its presence in Kashmir, now at the heart of rescue efforts. Producers: Shailander Chauhan, Mohd Asim, Rohit Wellington Rajan, Noman Siddiqui, Juhi Tyagi, Shorbani Bhattacharya, Yamini Joshi, Ruby Dhingra, Taurn Shingari, Abhishek Chauhan, Sudarshan Kumar, Amit Singh Editors: Uma Shankar Mishra, Pratap Singh Thakur Correspondents: Barkha Dutt, Manoj Thakur (Cameraman), Manu Nair (Cameraman) CBC News: The National canadian The Ebola EffectBroadcasting Corporation, Canada By the fall of 2014, the deadly Ebola virus had swept viciously through West Africa, generating a tide of fear around the globe. CBC dispatched a crew to the overwhelmed capital of Liberia. Producer: Stephanie Jenzer Editor/Cameraman: Jean-François Bisson Correspondent: Adrienne Arsenault The National Day NOS Netherlands of Mourning Broadcasting Organization, The Netherlands Only 22 hours after the Dutch Government declared July 23rd as National Day of Mourning for the victims of the MH17 crash, the NOS prepared a live broadcast. Producers: Mike van Breemen, Pim Marks Editors: Rene Went, Paul Vloon, Pim Marks Correspondents: Rik van de Westelaken, Jeroen Overbeek Jornal Hoje and TV Globo, Brazil Jornal Nacional The Death of Eduardo Campos One of the leading candidates in one of the closest presidential elections in Brazilian history died in a plane crash just two months before the polls opened. Jornal Nacional covered the repercussions as well as the investigation over the following days. Producers: Sheila Natal, Luciana Bertolli, Carmen Pecoraro, Wagner Vallim, André Agostinho, Marcos Aidar, Dagoberto Souto Maior Editors: Ali Kamel, Silvia Faria, Mariano Boni de Mathis, Cristina Piasentini, Ana Escalada, Denise Cunha Sobrinho, Angélica Camargo, Teresa Garcia, Sandra Annenberg, Evaristo Costa, William Bonner, Luiz Fernando Ávila, Ricardo Villela, Ricardo Pereira, Jô Mazzarolo, Eduardo Silva, Cintia Borsato, José Alan, Swami Pimentel, Alexandre Castanho, Leandro Cassio Correspondents: José Roberto Burnier, Marco Antonio Gonçalves, Fabio Turci, Luciano Matioli 2015 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD FOR CURRENT AFFAIRS Stray Bullets 101 East, Al Jazeera, Malaysia Liberal gun laws, a thriving black market and rampant corruption have put almost four million guns — both legal and illegal — on the streets of the Philippines. This investigation ventures deep into the crime-ridden neighborhoods of the Philippines and explores the nation’s dangerous addiction to guns. Producers: Sharon Roobol, Sarah Yeo Editor: Andy Mees Correspondents: Steve Chao, Lee Ali (Camerman) Children on the Frontline ITN Productions, uNited Kingdom This Dispatches documentary tells the story of five young children whose lives have been changed forever by the war in Syria. We meet young sisters Helen, Farah and Sara, and their brother Mohammed, whose father is a rebel commander in Aleppo. We also learn the story of Aboude, a singer and poster boy for the Syrian uprising. Producers: Marcel Mettelsieffen, Anthony Wonke, Chris Shaw Editor: Stephen Ellis ZDFzoom ZDF German Television, Germany The Soccer Empire — The Dealings of FIFA Corruption in FIFA doesn’t sound new, but ZDFzoom reporter Markus Harm reveals very disturbing facts about the world’s most significant sports organization. He gains insight into hidden documents and confronts FIFA bosses with his findings. Producers: Claudia Ruete, Michael Strompen Editor: Laszlo Bredy Correspondent: Markus Harm GloboNews Documentário GloboNews / Torre de David (Tower of David) TV Globo, Brazil 4,000 people occupied an unfinished 45-story skyscraper in Caracas. They lived in the tallest vertical slum in the world for seven years. The characters’ stories illustrate the Venezuelan reality. Violence, social issues, and politics are embedded in their daily reality. Producers: Eugenia Moreyra, Rodrigo Carvalho Editors: Renée Castelo Branco, Magno Mendonça Correspondents: Rodrigo Carvalho, Julio Molica Outstanding Investigative Journalism — Long-Form FRONTLINEPBS Firestone and the Warlord An investigation spanning 10 months and four continents, “Firestone and the Warlord” unraveles the secret dealings between an iconic American business and one of the 20th century’s most notorious war criminals, Charles Taylor. The reporting, based on hundreds of previously unreported corporate records, shows how Firestone agreed to pay millions of dollars to Taylor in exchange for being able to operate the plantation and how Taylor turned the plantation into a base used to wage a war that claimed tens of thousands of lives and stunted the future of Liberia. Executive Producer: David Fanning Deputy Executive Producer: Raney Aronson-Rath Senior Series Editor: Andrew Metz Producer/Director: Marcela Gaviria Co- Producers: Will Cohen, Maeve O’Boyle Senior Editor, ProPublica: Joe Sexton Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica: Stephen Engelberg Reporters, ProPublica: Jonathan Jones, T. Christian Miller HBO Documentary FilmsHBO Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia In Putin’s Russia, gay people are hunted like animals, targeted by vigilantes who believe they have the support of the public, the church, and the regime. “Hunted” reveals this brutality, exposing the upsurge in homophobic violence and exploring the motivations of those leading the attacks. The backbone of the film is astonishing insider access to the largest anti-gay vigilante network in Russia. In over thirty cities this group routinely entraps gay men on the internet, luring them to meet up in order to attack them physically and psychologically. The vigilantes call this a “safari” and routinely post “trophy videos” on social media to humiliate and publicly out their victims. Hunted also examines the central role of the church and the state in triggering this wave of violence. The film, a raw and intimate view of hatred, has had a significant public impact in the US and has played a leading role in ensuring public discussion on the issue of gay rights in Russia. Director: Ben Steele Executive Producers: Karen Edwards, Sheila Nevins, Fiona Stourton Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham HBO Documentary FilmsHBO The Newburgh Sting When the FBI announced in July of 2009 that they had thwarted a terrorist attack by four Muslim men just outside of New York City, newspapers around the country celebrated the bust as a law-enforcement coup. The four “terrorists” were convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, but their attorneys insisted that the defendants were just four petty criminals entrapped by a paid undercover informant sent out to infiltrate mosques. The first part of the film shows how the informant systematically enticed four desperate men into committing a crime. After the dramatic arrest, the film then takes a shocking turn as FBI spokesmen claim on camera that the arrest came from monitoring a Newburgh terrorist cell for a year. The last third of the film uses interviews with some of the most prominent experts in US/Muslim relations and former FBI officials to show that cases like Newburgh are part of a nationwide FBI strategy aimed at spreading fear in part to ensure that the Bureau’s budget stays fully funded. Director / Producers: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner Executive Producer: Dan Cogan Independent LensPBS The State of Arizona “The State of Arizona” pushes beyond the headlines to capture the explosive emotions and complex realities behind one of the defining stories of our time — immigration. Reporting from ground zero of the debate, the film follows Arizona’s controversial “show me your papers” law all the way to the Supreme Court through the stories of Arizonans on all sides of the issue. Directors/Producers: Carlos Sandoval, Catherine Tambini Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer Deputy Executive Producer, Independent Lens: Lois Vossen Pimp City: A Journey to theFusion Center of the Sex Slave Trade Pimp City is the result of a one-year investigation into one of the fastest-growing criminal activities in the U.S. Through extensive reporting, scores of interviews, data analysis and legal research, correspondent Mariana van Zeller and her team of producers uncovered the largest foreign source of sex trafficking in the U.S. — the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, and at its center, a town of 10,000 called Tenancingo. Executive Producer: Keith Summa Director/Producer: Alice Brennan Producer: Cristina Costantini Additional Producers: William Gallego, Diana Oliva-Cave, Rayner Ramirez Investigative Correspondent: Mariana van Zeller Outstanding Historical Programming — Long-Form Brothers in War National Geographic Channel Brothers in War traces the story of a single company of soldiers in the Vietnam War (Charlie Company, 4th of the 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division), which was one of the only companies of U.S. Army soldiers to be drafted, trained and sent to fight and 44 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES
36th ANNUAL ® NEWS &DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS die together in the jungles of Vietnam. Brothers in War tells the visceral story of how violent combat interacted with the young lives of these Americans, and how their futures were forever altered by the draft. Director/Producer: Liz Reph Executive Producers: Madeleine Carter, Lou Reda, Scott L. Reda HBO Documentary FilmsHBO Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words From February 1971 through July 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly taped his private conversations. Some of those tapes were made public during the Watergate hearings and led to Nixon’s resignation. But most of them, 2,626 hours in all, were not made public until the government began to de-classify them from the mid 1990’s until 2013. This documentary explores how the tapes reveal the many different sides of one of our most complex presidents. Director / Producer: Peter Kunhardt Executive Producers: Peter Kunhardt, Dyllan McGee, Sheila Nevins Supervising Producer: Jacqueline Glover Co-Producers: George Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt Independent LensPBS The Trials of Muhammad Ali “The Trials of Muhammad Ali” covers Ali’s toughest bout, his battle to overturn the five-year prison sentence he received for refusing U.S. military service during the Vietnam War. It is a fight film tracing a formative period in Ali’s life, one that is remarkably unknown to many young people today and tragically neglected by those who remember him as a boxer, but overlook how controversial he was when he first took center stage. Director/Producer: Bill Siegel Executive Producers: Justine Nagan, Leon Gast, Gordon Quinn, Kat White, Sally Jo Fifer Producer: Rachel Pikelny Deputy Executive Producer, Independent Lens: Lois Vossen MAKERSPBS/AOL The six-part Makers documentary series tells the stories of trailblazing women in the traditionally male-dominated industries of war, comedy, space, business, Hollywood and politics. Makers captures the experiences of recognizable figures, like Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, Martha Stewart, Indra Nooyi, Lena Dunham and Ellen DeGeneres, as well as the stories that need to be known like Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, and Angela Salinas, the first Hispanic woman to become a United States Marine Corps general officer. Executive Producers: Peter Kunhardt, Dyllan McGee Senior Producers: Michael Epstein, Rachel Dretzin President of AOL MAKERS: Maureen Sullivan Producers: Mikaela Beardsley, Michael Epstein, Heidi Ewing, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Melissa Gomez, Rachel Grady, Rory Kennedy, Grace Lee, Leah Williams, Sara Wolitzky Directors: Michael Epstein, Heidi Ewing, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Rachel Grady, Grace Lee, Jamila Wignot Producers AOL MAKERS: Nancy Armstrong, Samantha Leibovitz, Caroline Waterlow, Betsy West Supervising Producer: Deborah Clancy Porfido Consulting Producers: Mark Bailey, Mark Jonathan Harris, Christine Whitaker, Jack Youngelson Co-Producer: Patricia Bischetti Coordinating Producer: Kristin Lesko Line Producer: Stef Gordon Executive Producer For WETA: Dalton Delan VP, Programming and Development (For PBS): Bill Gardner Co-Producers (For Kunhardt McGee Productions): George Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt The Unknown Known History Channel In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris offers a haunting portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush’s secretary of defense and the principal architect of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rather than conducting a conventional interview, Morris has Rumsfeld perform and explain his “snowflakes” — the enormous archive of memos he wrote across nearly fifty years in power, from Congress to the White House, as a CEO and as a two-time Secretary of Defense. The memos, with their contradictions and obfuscations, provide a window into history — not as it actually happened, but as Rumsfeld wants us to see it. The Unknown Known captures history from the inside out, showing us how the ideas, the fears and the certainties of one man transformed America, changed the course of history, and led to unending war. Director/Producer: Errol Morris Executive Producers: Josh Braun, Julian P. Hobbs, Dirk Hoogstra, Jason Janego, Tom Quinn, Julia Sheehan, Jeff Skoll, Celia Taylor, Molly Thompson, Angus Wall, Diane Weyermann Producers: Amanda Branson Gill, Robert Fernandez Outstanding Editing: Documentary and Long Form HBO Documentary FilmsHBO Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words From February 1971 through July 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly taped his private conversations. Some of those tapes were made public during the Watergate hearings and led to Nixon’s resignation. But most of them were not made public until the government began to de-classify them from the mid 1990’s until 2013. This documentary explores how the tapes reveal the many different sides of one of our most complex presidents. The challenge of the editing was to sort through an enormous amount of material — there were 3,700 hours of White House tapes alone, not to mention all of the news footage and media reports the filmmakers needed to find and digest — in order to find the story for the film. In studying the 37th president through his own recorded conversations they discovered a man whose ambition could trump policy with sometimes disastrous human consequences, and whose paranoia-driven desire to control and manipulate his image was all-consuming and ultimately led to his downfall. Editor: Phillip Schopper Independent LensPBS The Trials of Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali was a man who refused to be divided. He was the pawn of the all-white Louisville sports commission and the confidant of the political ideologue Minister Farrakhan. Ali was praised in Reverend Martin Luther King’s and Elijah Muhammad’s sermons, and served as a bridge between organizations, religions, and races that are divided by historical rhetoric. Similarly, editor Aaron Wickenden unites sports footage, entertainment news, religious speeches, and political activism into a comprehensive and complex image of Ali’s tumultuous ride through the sixties and seventies. Editor: Aaron Wickenden Mission BlueNetflix The creators of Mission Blue were faced with a unique challenge: how best to capture the passion and commitment of Dr. Sylvia Earle, a true legend of Ocean conservation. In balancing both her personal life and her unbending drive to make a difference, the editing process needed to reveal the sweet spot that makes Sylvia’s story so timely and critically important: her ambitious effort to create marine ‘hope spots’ around the globe, in hopes of saving the Ocean from further degradation. Editor: Peter R. Livingston Jr. PBS Arts Fall FestivalPBS Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace Famous for reinterpreting classical portraits to feature African- American men, painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the practice of portraiture on its head, taking the art world by storm. Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace follows the artist as he steps out of his comfort zone to create a series of paintings that feature women for the first time. The film traces the artist’s process from concept to canvas, exposing a delicate tension between Wiley’s artistic choices and how these choices may be interpreted differently by viewers. Following the style of Wiley’s painting, the editorial approach combines seductive, bold imagery with a narrative that questions the mechanisms of representation. Editor: Ana Veselic POVPBS American Promise “American Promise” is an unprecedented, groundbreaking coming-of-age film culminating in 13 years of footage featuring the intimate stages of life. African-American parents film their son and his friend as they attend Dalton School, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country — and historically white — on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Chronicling the boys’ divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation, “American Promise” is a provocative documentary presenting the complicated truths about America’s struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity. The editors had to shape not just one child’s journey to young adulthood, but two. They had to reveal each boy’s temperament, challenges and evolution, and his relationship to the parents, siblings, teachers and friends that influenced him. Editors: Erin Casper, Mary Manhardt, Andrew Siwoff Additional Editor: Michelle Chang The Hunt with John WalshCNN Trafficking in Death In October 2002, an inspector looking through grain-carrying rail cars in Denison, Iowa, made a horrifying discovery: eleven skeletonized corpses piled at the bottom of one of the hopper chambers. The identities of the victims in the car remained a mystery until a Guatemalan-American in New York State phoned investigators wondering if his brother was one of the dead. Investigators were able to identify the team of coyotes who brought him north from Central America, and their ringleader in Mexico City: Guillermo “Don Memo” Ballesteros. The journeys north from Honduras and Guatemala had to be edited with energy and precision to capture the nearly endless set of terrifying steps each migrant must take. The journey in the doomed rail car, by contrast, was dreamy and menacing, colored by night, by heat, and by shared despair among strangers cast together to hope, and die. The investigators’ story was more mechanical: methodical and painstaking, characterized by dogged determination and a righteous anger that drove them to find the perpetrators. Editor: Bobby Zeleny VICE News vice Media Last Chance High On Chicago’s West Side, there is a school for the city’s most atrisk youth — the Moses Montefiore Academy. Most of the students at Montefiore have been kicked out of other schools for aggressive behavior and many have been diagnosed with emotional disorders. “Last Chance High” takes viewers inside Montefiore’s classrooms and into the homes of students who are one mistake away from being locked up or committed to a mental hospital. Editors: Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary and Long Form Independent LensPBS Happiness Pyangke is a young and dreamy eight year old Buddhist monk living with his mother in a remote village in Bhutan, five days walk from the nearest city. The village has neither running water, nor electricity, nor roads. But the road will soon arrive and with it will come electricity, and a 46 channel TV network. In anticipation of this event, Pyangke’s uncle has decided to go to the city and buy a television set, and has asked the little boy to come with him. Because the film focuses on our relationship with images, cinematography plays an essential role in the storytelling, showing contrasting images. On the one hand, sequences of Bhutanese village life in the Himalayan landscape, where the scarce images come from tradition and sacred Buddhist books. On the other, manufactured images of modernity, the city, and the whirl of the world brought to Pyangke by the TV set. Cinematographer: Thomas Balmes Director of Photography: Thomas Balmes, Nina Bernfield Mission BlueNetflix Mission Blue follows the legendary explorer, Dr. Sylvia Earle, in her life long quest to preserve our planet. The filmmakers traveled the world for four years showcasing the importance of our oceans as well as the devastating challenges we face protecting it today. The film merges unique archival footage with both beautiful and disturbing images from the underwater world in its current state. 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